> This is both an accessible and valid method:

Valid yes, but accessible?
I click on a link. I look at the page. I try to click on the back
button. "What? Why doesn't this work? Oh. Because it's opened in a new
window". Close window. Return to the site (and page) I want to be on.
This whole malarkey makes the site less accessible for me, let alone for
a person who can't actually see what's going on.

> <a href="foo.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"
> onkeypress="window.open(this.href);return false;" title="opens in new
> window">new window</a>

If you are going to use JavaScript though, this will do:

<a href="foo.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"
title="opens in new window">new window</a>

onclick is invoked by keyboard action too.


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Patrick Griffiths (PTG)
 http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/
 http://www.htmldog.com


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